Entomologists thought the Brazilian bee Plebeia emerina had disappeared in California in the 1950s. But two colonies were rediscovered in Palo Alto in 2013, and now a four-year-old has found two more.
Robin Agarwal
Robin Agarwal was a bug-and-tidepool kid who went astray and graduated with a liberal arts degree. In the last decade, she has returned to her childhood passions, photographing and writing about nudibranchs and other natural marvels. She is co-editor of the California Sea Slugs Guide on iNaturalist, where she is a curator with about 35,000 geotagged observations. Find out more at iNaturalist